Arendt & Medernach was awarded "Luxembourg Law Firm of the Year" at the Chambers Europe Awards 2017 ceremony which took place in London, on 7 April 2017. The award recognises the law firm's pre-eminence in key practice areas in Luxembourg jurisdiction. It takes into account firm’s strategic growth, market feedback and involvement in market-leading deals.

IFLR’s awards celebrate innovation, novelty and complexity – whether structural or regulatory. This is not a quantitative survey of European transactions. It is not based on league tables or deal figures. To select the shortlist, IFLR’s editorial staff spoke with many lawyers and other professionals across the region. Both private practice and in-house counsel were interviewed, and the decisions taken by our editorial team were based on extensive research.

National firm awards are given to the firm with the best track record in 2016 giving local law advice on the most innovative cross-border deals – covering all award practice areas – from the country in question.

Arendt & Medernach had mandates on five transactions shortlisted for deal of the year.

Arendt & Medernach was named Best Advisory Firm - UCITS on the occasion of the MENA Fund Manager Performance Awards in Dubai last January. This is the fifth time in a row that the firm has won this award. It testifies to the reliability and quality of the services provided by the office in Dubai. This award recognises the firm as an invaluable support and guide for the MENA region fund/asset management domain.

The partners of Arendt & Medernach are pleased to announce that their firm has been awarded once again the prestigious “Luxembourg Tax Firm of the Year” title during the International Tax Review’s European Tax Awards ceremony held at the Savoy Hotel in London on 18 May.

The European Tax Awards take place annually and recognise the leading tax professionals around Europe. The firms are judged on key criteria such as size, innovation and complexity of their transactions. Arendt & Medernach has already won the Luxembourg Tax Firm of the Year award in 2015.

Jan Neugebauer, Tax Partner, who accepted the Award on behalf of Arendt & Medernach, commented: “It is a great honour for our firm to be the Luxembourg Tax Firm of the Year once again. The award confirms that our strategy to provide the complete range of tax services from advisory to compliance and litigation in all areas of tax, including VAT and transfer pricing, is the right path for the future”.

Jean-Marc Ueberecken, Managing Partner, further added: “We are very pleased to have been recognised once again as the Luxembourg Tax Firm of the Year. This nomination complements the Tier 1 ranking of our practice area in major league tables. On behalf of all the partners, I would like to thank our 40 head strong tax team for their hard work and commitment over the last 20 years which makes our tax practice so unique.”

First-time entrant, Arendt & Medernach scooped the Law Firm of the Year award at the 2016 Euromoney’s Global Investor MENA Awards ceremony, which was held at the Atlantis Hotel in Dubai on 26 October 2016.

The Law Firm of the Year award celebrates the success of Arendt & Medernach and its significant contribution to the financial services and asset management industries. The firm is the only independent Luxembourg law firm with an office focusing on the MENA region.

The Europe Women in Business Law Awards gives law firms and professional services firms the recognition they deserve for their efforts in helping women advance in the legal profession. Arendt & Medernach is proud to be the recipient of the best firm Country Award for Luxembourg for the third year running.

This Country Award hails the firm’s ability to support the development of women in the legal profession and provide work/life programmes to enable women to pursue legal careers.

The firms were nominated on the base of preliminary research, submissions, directory analysis, magazine survey results and interviews with leading female practitioners across multiple areas of law and jurisdictions. Criteria also include the ratio of female-to-male lawyers (at all levels of seniority), the number of women associates at partner level and any relevant diversity initiatives.

These awards honour the work of national and international law firms across the region on the basis of research for the upcoming edition of Chambers Europe. They recognise a law firm’s pre-eminence in key countries in the region. They also reflect notable achievements over the past 12 months including outstanding work, impressive strategic growth and excellence in client service.

After being named "Rising Star" on the "MENA Fund Manager Service Provider Power 50" list in 2012, Arendt & Medernach won the award "Best Advisory Firm - Compliance and Regulation" at the 2013 MENA Fund Manager Fund Services Awards, which was held in Dubai on 22 January 2013. The MENA Fund Manager Awards reward service providers who have shaped the fund industry in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and recognise firms which have outperformed their peer group in 2012. Run by the publication MENA Fund Manager, the prize was awarded for the first time this year. The judging panel was made up of representatives from MENA Fund Managers, leading institutional and private investors and industry experts. "We are very proud to have received this award which is a recognition for the expertise that we have developed in advising MENA Fund Managers, as well as a confirmation of our commitment to the region" says Florence Stainier, Investment Funds Partner and responsible for the MENA region at Arendt & Medernach. Bishr Shiblaq, Head of the Dubai office, adds "This award, voted by our peers, shows that after 5 years of presence in the MENA region Arendt & Medernach is acknowledged as the leading Luxembourg law firm for compliance and regulation. The prize further encourages us in our continuous efforts to relentlessly provide a service of the highest quality to our clients."

Over 980 people attended the 10th anniversary of the Gala HR One which took place on 22 November 2012 in Mondorf-les-Bains. During the ceremony, the best initiatives undertaken by Luxembourg actors and companies in the fields of employment law and human resources were rewarded by a jury of 82 Luxembourg Human Resources Directors. Arendt & Medernach was rewarded with the prize for the ‘Best Labour Law Firm’ for the fifth consecutive year. ‘Our employment law team is extremely proud to have been crowned “Best Labour Law Firm” for the fifth year running. This recognition of our work is the fruit of our excellent relationships with our clients and is a confirmation of our team’s expertise in the field of labour law. It encourages us to continue in our efforts to relentlessly provide a service of the highest quality to our clients,’ say Carine Feipel and Louis Berns, Partners in charge of the Employment Law, Pensions and Benefits practice area.

Arendt & Medernach has been selected by the jury of the well-known legal association International Legal Alliance Summit & Awards (ILASA) as "Benelux best law firm 2010" – together with the Belgian law firm Liedekerke Wolters Waelbroeck Kirkpatrick. The "Gold Award" 2010 was presented on 3 June 2010 at a gala in Paris. The deciding factors were transaction advice in the past two years, the profile of the M&A-partners and M&A-teams on the market and the financial and personnel development of the entire law firm. The Benelux-jury included General Counsels of world leading groups such as Alcatel-Lucent, Disney, CIT or Technip as well as the general manager of the European Company Lawyers Association. They assess law firms in all important industrial and developing nations. The Awards Ceremony on 3 June recognised the best independent law firms for 28 categories from their domestic markets and countries. The process to elect the best firms began 6 months prior to the event and engaged a panel of 98 jury members composed of exclusively active general counsels with extensive expertise in the concerned markets and countries. The nomination process was based on suggestions made by the jury and international rankings. On 3 June 2010 the International Legal Alliance Summit & Awards gathered 500 lawyers, managing partners, general counsels, leading professionals from the legal field from over 40 countries for one to one meetings and to celebrate the best independent performing firms.

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